Eleni Mandell

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The Living Sisters Let Themselves Go, And Their Harmonies Are More Remarkable For It

The Living Sisters serve sweet vermouth, cheesy puff pastries, dark chocolate and red wine at a late-November get-together, which they hold in the cozy living room of founding member Eleni Mandell's Echo Park apartment. Her 2-year-old twins sleep in a nearby bedroom. True to their whimsical musical ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide

Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Music Picks: Barry Adamson, Joanna Malfatti Trio, Clare Fischer Big Band

Also, Eleni Mandell, Steve Reich, Call Us Forgotten and others

Blue Note Records' Troubling New Direction

Few genres are as protective of their past as jazz. Some might say it's all they've got. The discipline is largely defined by the classic record labels that brought the sounds to the masses. Jazz nerds will argue the superiority of one golden recording era versus another just as stubbornly as baske ... More >>

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

This weekend: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Boris, Cyndi Lauper, the Antlers, Morris Day, Cap'N Jazz, Something Corporate, Chemical Brothers

Christina M. FeliceVanaprasta​By now, we're sure you have your strategy mapped out for Saturday's street festival portion of the Sunset Strip Music Festival. You're hitting the Sunset Strip early for Semi Precious Weapons; you're darting between outdoor stages for the likes of Travie McCoy, ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Merle Haggard, X, Playboy Jazz Festival, Henry Rollins, Murs, the Glitch Mob, Dr. John, Tortoise

​Even if the only ink you sweat is your printer cartridge and your idea of iron comes in your vitamin supplements, there's a lot to recommend at this weekend's Ink-N-Iron Festival: the tunes. Among the the tatted masses, meticulously coiffed pompadours, corseted pin-up girls and acres of machi ... More >>

Live in L.A.: School of Seven Bells, the Living Sisters, Hot Hot Heat, Cute Is What We Aim For

School of Seven Bells​Benjamin Curtis became every wannabe-shoegazer's idol in 2008, when School of Seven Bells unleashed its floating-through-the-stratosphere fuzz-pop on the world -- finding the ex-Secret Machines guitarist situated squarely in between fetching identical twins Alejandra and ... More >>

SANTA MONICA: IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE THERE, JOIN 'EM

The Living Sisters: Sibling Harmonies

The crystal-clear vocal world of Inara George, Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark

The Living Sisters sign with Vanguard and prepare new album

The Living Sisters sign with Vanguard and prepare new album

Harper Simon to Join Brian Wilson at the Disney Concert Hall

Harper Simon Joins Brian Wilson at the Disney Concert Hall

Rock Picks: Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson, Miss Jilly, Mission of Burma, The Mountain Goats

Da "Bomb": Free Inara George MP3 (courtesy of KCRW)

Last year chanteuse Inara George released An Invitation, her lush collaboration with legendary arranger, lyricist, composer and singer Van Dyke Parks. After the largely positive--though slightly muted--reaction to that collection, Inara went back to the drawing board and has just issued a digital so ... More >>

Rock Picks: Fuck Buttons, Exene Cervenka, Imogen Heap, John Fogerty

Also, HEALTH, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Múm, Leon Russell and others

Harper Simon Record Release at the Echo Tonight

Harper Simon Record Release at the Echo Tonight

Rock Picks: Don Caballero, Yo! Majesty, Joan Baez, Juana Molina

Also, Extreme Animals, Andrew Bird, Peach Fuzz, and others

Rock Picks: Mulatu Astatke, The Soft Pack, Katy Perry, Merle Haggard

Also, Cut Chemist, NOFX, Hal Blaine’s 80th bash and more

Rock Picks: George Clinton, the Kris Special, Banyan

Also, Eleni Mandell, Tom Verlaine & Jimmy Rip and others

Rock Picks: Digable Planets, Pigeon John, the Wedding Present, Prima Donna

Also, Josh Rouse, the Raconteurs, Chicha Libre and more

Memorial Day Weekend in LA: Music galore (and MP3s)

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend, the perfect three-day break, tailor-made for chilling in the comfort of an abandoned LA. As long as you stay away from Hollywood Boulevard and the tourists imported from Hell, you can relax, go out to dinner, catch some music, sleep in, drive to the desert, take some LSD, c ... More >>

Blurbs of Paradise

What to do in L.A., May 23-29

Rock Picks: Spoon, HorrorPops, Wolf Parade

For the week of September 6 – 13

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

For the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6

Rock Picks: The Humpers, Secretary Bird, Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow

For the week of June 21–28

Rock Picks: The Police, Sage Francis, Radio Birdman and more

For the week of June 14 - 21

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For the week of April 19–27

Shine On, You Crazy Loft-Liver

What to do in Los Angeles this week

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April 12 – 19

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For the week of Feb. 8 - 15

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For February 1–8

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For the week of Oct. 5–12

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For Sept. 28 – Oct. 5

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For February 9 - 16, 2006

Picks for Sunday, February 12

Sunday, February 12

Walk-ins Welcome

From Jarvis Cocker to Van Dyke Parks, you never know who’ll drop in on the “Open Mike Andrews”

Treat Her Like She’s Heavy

Eleni Mandell feathers you to the floor

The Contemporaries

Stripping Lessons

You Better You Bests

Mr. Fold's Wild Ride

Twists and Kisses

Ear pretzels from Television

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Gut Feeling

Edited by Kateri Butler

Support Your Local Independents

A selected list of L.A.-area labels, all of which will deliver right to your door:

Work the Dream

Home, the world and Eleni Mandell

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